Chicago, IL, USA
three organe glowing lights, no airplane winges, evenly spaced going out of sight.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-04
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- few minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-chicago-il-2009-b951ab
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Chicago, IL reports filed in July 2009.
In context
- Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
- 140 reports came from Illinois in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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